The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

Raymond Wells was born in Eagle, Colorado in April 1922. He was living in Secora, New Mexico and remembers the day the...

Dachau

Fred Whitaker crossed the channel [Annotator’s Note: the English Channel between England and France] and landed at Le...

Samuel W. Smith passed his instrument school training a week before graduation. He got a 250 dollar allowance to buy a...

At Northwestern University, Lauren Swinney's speech fraternity, Zeta Phi Eta, was sent to Glenview Naval Air Station....

Walter Halloran returned to Fort Huachuca in Arizona with his wife and child [Annotator’s Note: this was following his...

Vernon Alexander was a history major in college. He ran into a situation about 30 miles outside of Innsbruck, Austria...

Robert Swan saw a carrier the first day [Annotator's Note: on 3 June 1942, the first day of the Battle of Midway] but...

When they left Clark Field, Harold DeForest's Company A [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th Infantry...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Prince helped liberate the Cabanatuan Prison Camp, Cabanatuan City, Luzon, Philippines on 30...

Oral History